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2021-05-13 - Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has just been named LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar by the College of LAS. Named scholars are chosen for their energy, creativity, and record of excellence  in teaching and research, as well as for evidence of service and future potential. More information in this LAS news article:  https://las.illinois.edu/news/2021-05-12/...

2021-05-13 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has won the Latin American Studies Association 2021 Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities (presented by the Sexualities Studies Section) for her article “Paz’s Pasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom.” The Latin American Studies Association is the largest professional association in the world for the study...

2021-05-12 - Lit/cult PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a highly competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This award will allow Carmen to complete her dissertation project “Quantifying Amazonia: Ecocritical fictions during and beyond the rubber boom in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil (19th - 21st centuries),” which she...

2021-05-12 - Following the determination by the Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, the Provost has recommended the promotions of both Melissa Bowles and John Karam to the rank of Full Professor, effective August 16, 2021. As stated in Provost Communication 9, the final recommendation on promotion and tenure is made by the Provost, acting...

2021-05-05 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has been awarded a six-month 2021 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. The Fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The fellowship allows exceptional junior faculty to pursue...

2021-05-04 - Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the 2021 LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Award.  This highly competitive award was created as a way to foster excellence and recognize the impact assistant professors have in the College of LAS. It is granted to faculty...

2021-04-29 - Our very own Ann Abbott has been the recipient of the inaugural 2021 Xiaohui Zhang Diversity and Community Engagement Award! This award, which is open to both faculty and students, recognizes an SLCL member who has contributed to the School's mission of promoting a diverse, inclusive, and engaged academic community, and who has facilitated...

2021-04-26 - PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a Whitten Fellowship from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies for her project “Postcards in the Marketplace: 19th and 20th centuries Amazon Imagery in a Contemporary Digital Archive,” to be conducted in summer 2021....

2021-04-23 - Spanish PhD students Jone Vicente Urrutia (Lit/Cult) and Ander Beristain Murillo (Linguistics) have been selected for the Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Teaching Award. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese grants two awards ($250 each) to two Graduate Teaching Assistants, one in the area of linguistics and one in the area of literary and...

2021-04-22 - The Graduate College has awarded our PhD candidate Irati Hurtado Ruiz a Dissertation Travel Grant to conduct research in Spain during Fall 2021. This Graduate College Travel Grant is a very competitive award at the campus level and we should be proud of Irati's fantastic achievement. For more information on this grant read...

2021-04-22 - Our PhD candidate Ander Beristain has been awarded an LAS Impact Award for his efforts making online learning fun and engaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. The LAS Impact Awards were created to honor those who’ve gone beyond expectations to help others during this incredibly difficult chapter in our history. You can...

2021-04-12 - PhD student Caio Albernaz Siqueira has been awarded a Global South Languages Fellowship to study Quechua for AY 2021-22. The goal of this fellowship program is to provide support for graduate students interested in the study of Less Commonly Taught Languages of the Global South, including Arabic, Hindi, Quechua, Persian, Portuguese, Swahili, Wolof, and Zulu...

2021-04-12 - Professor Pilar Martínez-Quiroga has been recognized with the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff.  Only one annual award is given in this category. This award is given to Specialized Faculty in the College ...

2021-04-12 - Ander Beristain Murillo  and Jone Vicente Urrutia have won the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. This is a very competitive award for the most outstanding graduate teaching assistants in the College who have shown a sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching and who...

2021-04-08 - Our very recent alumna Dr. Liz Moreno-Chuquen (Ph.D. 2019) has been awarded a very competitive 2021 NEH Summer Stipend for her project, “Visual Narratives of Afroporteños: Presence and Social Prestige in Alexander Witcomb’s Photographic Archive.” In this project Liz focuses on a photographic collection by this British...